While enjoying, to a point, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Game Night, I spent much of the picture wishing it had gone in a completely different, and subtler, direction. It’s easy to imagine some other project titled Game Night gestating and then languishing in the primordial muck of preproduction: a lo-fi, low-budget, semi-improvised mumblecore ensemble about a … [Read more...]
‘Christine’ lingers in sensationalism it deplores
Sarasota newswoman Christine Chubbuck, who infamously shot herself on camera in 1974, may be a tragic footnote in the history of regional television. But in 2016, her paragraph is growing larger. In one of those weird confluences of cinematic synchronicity — like 2005’s pair of Truman Capote biofilms, or this year’s dueling French and Anglo-American takes on Florence Foster … [Read more...]